List of Irish scientists, engineers and inventors
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A List of Irish scientists, engineers and inventors, people who were either born on the island of Ireland or lived and worked there for an extended period.
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- Vincent Barry (1908-1975), led a team that discovered a treatment for leprosy
- Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength
- John Stewart Bell (1928-1990), atomic physicist, 'Bell's Inequalities'
- John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971), X-ray crystallography
- George Boole (1815-1864), inventor of Boolean algebra, the basis of all modern computer arithmetic
- Robert Boyle (1627-1691), pioneer scientist, 'Boyle's Law'
- Louis Brennan (1852-1932), principle of a guided missile, wire-guided torpedo
- Lucien Bull (1876-1972), high speed photography, modern electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- ), discovered pulsars
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- Nicholas Callan (1799-1864), inventor of the induction coil and discoverer the principle of the dynamo (See link: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/callan.html)
- Aeneas Coffey (1780-1852), heat exchanger
- Nicholas Comins, binaural stethoscope
- William Monad Crawford, entomologist
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- William Dargan, railway engineer
- John Boyd Dunlop, Scotsman, pneumatic tyre
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- Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode, born in USA
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- Henry George Ferguson, engineer, designer of the modern farm tractor, inventor of the three-point hitch
- George Francis FitzGerald (1851-1901), theoretical physicist, 'Fitzgerald-Lorenz Contraction'
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- John Robert Gregg (1868-1948), Gregg shorthand system
- Sir John Purser Griffith (1848-1938) Chief engineer for Dublin port and Irish Free State senator (1922-1936)
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- William Rowan Hamilton, quaternions; mathematical physics
- John Phillip Holland (1841-1914), submarine designer
- Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815), botanist
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- John Joly (1857-1933), photometer, colour photography
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- Richard Kirwan (1733-1812), meteorologist
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- Arthur Leared (1822-1879), binaural stethoscope
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- Robert Mallet (1810-1881), seismology
- Sir James Martin (1893-1981), aircraft ejector seat
- Alexander Mitchell (1780-1868), lighthouse and marine engineer
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- Sir Charles Parsons (1854-1931), English born inventor of the steam turbine
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- Francis Rynd (1811-1861), doctor, hypodermic needle
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- George Stokes (1819-1903), mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations'
- George Johnstone Stoney (1826-1911), atomic physicist, named the 'electron' and measured its charge
- John Lighton Synge (1897-1995), mathematician
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- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), physicist
- John Tyndall (1820-1893), physicist
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- Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Mary Ward (1827-1869), microscopist
- John Walker (1841-1910), principle and forerunner of the caterpillar track
- John Richardson Wigham (1829-1906), inventor and lighthouse engineer
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